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Querying Graph-Based Repositories of Business Process Models

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010)

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With the rapid and incremental increase in the number of process models developed by different process designers, it becomes crucial for business process designers to be able to look up the repository for models that could handle a similar situation before developing new ones. In this paper, we present an approach for querying repositories of graph-based business process models. Our approach is based on a visual query language for business processes called BPMN-Q. BPMN-Q is used to query business process models by matching the structure of a graph query to that of a process model. The query engine of our system is built on top of traditional RDBMS. We make use of the robust relational indexing infrastructure in order to achieve an efficient and scalable query evaluation performance.

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  1. HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany

    Ahmed Awad

  2. CSE, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Sherif Sakr

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Masatoshi Yoshikawa

  2. Information School, Renmin University of China, 100872, Beijing, China

    Xiaofeng Meng

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, 671-2280, Hyogo, Japan

    Takayuki Yumoto

  4. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Qiang Ma

  5. Institute of HCI and Media Integration, Tsinghua University, 100084, Bejing, China

    Lifeng Sun

  6. Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Chiemi Watanabe

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Awad, A., Sakr, S. (2010). Querying Graph-Based Repositories of Business Process Models. In: Yoshikawa, M., Meng, X., Yumoto, T., Ma, Q., Sun, L., Watanabe, C. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14589-6_4

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